Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Fun fun fun

I wanted to write a post about how I'm trying to learn to have fun but it's complicated and I don't think I'm very good at it--having fun or writing about fun. It's much easier to write about work. It just takes lists!

Z started full time school this week. Very stressful. Also, the university's budget was cut by 13%. Egg or I may or may not have a job next week. And I have agent troubles. So maybe work is fun. At least it distracts from the anxiety.

Work has included yesterday and today:

Take Z to first day of all day school.

Meet teachers and find out where to put her lunchbox, blanket, pillow and water bottle.

Worry she'll cry when I leave. Just a nervous glance and then she turned to ask her teacher what to play.

Talk to student who is late to apply for graduation but I do highly powerful advising by signing off on science credits and dropping her 2nd major and 2 minors.

Talk to new grad student about degree progress and course distribution.

Get another email about budget. Freak out on phone with Egg.

Write a prompt for class that starts in 15 minutes.

Discuss two poems in class. Accidentally give a lesson on semiotics and the gnostic gospels (I do apologize, fine students).

Get in an heated discussion with one student about why she shouldn't use so many abstractions as love, beauty, loss, hurt, miss, forever in a poem. I may have lost the fight but will win the war. I told her to write a poem against me/my arguments. I presume it will turn out particularly concrete and specific.

Run Top Chef--this time, whichever group argued best for the poem won.

Talk with another student about abstractions.

Help Z peel potatoes for dinner.

Fry up said potatoes which will underpin Egg's all-day cooked green chile sauce.

Play puzzle with Z.

Wonder why I have so few emails today.

Read books with Z.

Sing her to sleep.

Check email again.

Blog.

Watch, in perfect synchronicity with yesterday, The Closer--though this one is new.

4 comments:

In synchronicity with you I1. freaked out over the budget, though probably without the personal edge of your freak-out2. watched The Closer from last night3. love clean sheets! Love them!4. cannot watch something on my DVR and record something else at the same time. This is a serious conceptual problem.